This is a FREE one day event that will introduce the calls for proposals, present insights and expectations from the European Commission whilst offering a unique international networking experience to forge the winning partnerships of the future.

The programme will include presentations from the European Commission, relevant national agencies including Innovate UK, and will provide a unique opportunity to pitch ideas and expertise in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators from across industry.

The afternoon brokerage event will allow you to extend your international network and create strategic partnerships through scheduled one-to-one meetings. Participants will also have the opportunity to meet with National Contact Point experts, Innovate UK and the Enterprise Europe Network.

The event is open to SMEs, larger companies and research organisations based in the UK and across Europe.

Please note: Delegates must attend the morning sessions in order to be eligible to participate in the B2B meeting sessions.

To register your interest in attending this event, please click the registration button and complete the requested information which will be assessed by the event organisers who will validate and confirm attendance to suitable organisations.

Why participate?

Receive the latest information from the European Commission about Horizon 2020 and forthcoming calls for proposals

Understand the practical steps of putting together a competitive proposal

Learn about what the evaluators are really looking for

Pitch directly to a targeted European audience of leading-edge industrial and research organisations (5 minute elevator pitches – 10 participants will be given the opportunity of presenting their innovative technology projects to the audience. To register your interest follow the instructions at the bottom of the registration form.)

Meet with future project partners from across industry and research at our dedicated forum for one-to-one meetings

]]>http://www.nmpteam.eu/horizon-2020-brokerage-event-on-nanotechnology-advanced-materials-manufacturing-processing-birmingham-20-nov-2018/feed/0Horizon 2020 – UK Overview and Q&Ahttp://www.nmpteam.eu/horizon-2020-uk-overview-and-qa/
http://www.nmpteam.eu/horizon-2020-uk-overview-and-qa/#respondTue, 23 Oct 2018 11:57:09 +0000http://www.nmpteam.eu/?p=2193The UK government is committed to ensuring that UK and EU researchers, universities and businesses will be able to continue to collaborate after EU exit.

The (UK) government’s priority remains ensuring the draft Withdrawal Agreement is finalised and concluded. This would ensure that UK entities’ right to participate in Horizon 2020 would be unaffected by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU for the lifetime of projects financed by the current MFF.

This Q&A sets out how the UK government will seek to ensure collaboration continues through a variety of measures, the following of which are detailed below:

Focussing on finalising and concluding the Withdrawal Agreement;

The Underwrite Guarantee and the Post EU Exit Guarantee Extension, should this be required;

Facilitating mobility for UK and EU researchers; and

Looking beyond Horizon 2020 to UK participation in Horizon Europe and the future Euratom Research and Training (Euratom R&T) programme

The draft Withdrawal Agreement envisages that existing projects will continue to receive an uninterrupted flow of EU funding for the lifetime of the project. This includes funding for FP7 participants.

After 29 March 2019 if there’s ‘no deal’

On 24 July 2018, the UK government announced that it would extend the guarantee to cover UK participants’ funding in all Horizon 2020 calls open to third country participants from the date of exit. The guarantee would cover the lifetime of their projects, even if they last beyond 2020.

In a ‘no deal’ scenario, UK researchers and businesses would still be able to apply to and (continue to) participate in all those Horizon 2020 calls open to third country participants from the date of exit.

Published NMBP calls are open to third country participants.

Additional detail is contained within the following official links – please let us know if you have any queries:

H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2018-2020: Foundations for Tomorrow’s Industry containing the topics for Open Innovation Test Beds, characterisation and modelling of nanoproducts and materials, and support to nanofabrication and standardisation;

H2020-NMBP-ST-IND-2018-2020: Industrial sustainability dealing with the CPPPs: Sustainable Process Industry and Efficient Energy Buildings, as well as including topics for Materials for Energy and Sustainable Catalysis.

]]>http://www.nmpteam.eu/nmbp-calls-2019-opened/feed/0The Conference “The Impact of EU research and innovation on your daily life” in Brussels on 27 Novemberhttp://www.nmpteam.eu/the-conference-the-impact-of-eu-research-and-innovation-on-your-daily-life-in-brussels-on-27-november/
http://www.nmpteam.eu/the-conference-the-impact-of-eu-research-and-innovation-on-your-daily-life-in-brussels-on-27-november/#respondWed, 17 Oct 2018 08:06:01 +0000http://www.nmpteam.eu/?p=2228The conference ‘The Impact of EU research and innovation on your daily life”
will be organised by the European Parliament and the European Commission in Brussels on 27 November.

The conference will bring together researchers and politicians to reflect on past and present achievements.
There will be panels on:

Health and wellbeing

Sustainable environment

Putting innovation on the market

Safe and secure society for all

Several EU funded projects will present their results to the wider public, two of which are funded by the NMBP programme:

This project is successfully producing an effective vaccine that treats infections in farm animals, reducing greatly the amount of antibiotics entering the food chain and causing long term damage to human health.

A new model where paper and textile waste is recycled chemically resulting in fabrics that are of the same quality as new materials making products that are industrially replicable and infinitely recyclable.

More information about the event and registration can be found at the event webpage:

The Matchmaking Event is organized in parallel with the NanoBio Conference in an attempt to encourage business and research collaboration opportunities in the emerging fields of Nanotechnologies and Bionanosciences. It aims to connect top applied research and early-stage innovations from universities, labs, and startups with industry end-users and prospectors. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own project concepts and meet representatives from companies/SMEs, universities, investors and research organizations in order to exchange ideas during pre-arranged meetings with the aim of paving the way for future venture, co-development & co-operations activities and European projects including call topics for 2018-2020.

Participation is free of charge. Registration deadline: September 20th

]]>http://www.nmpteam.eu/nanobio-matchmaking-event/feed/0AM-MOTION draft additive manufacturing roadmap publishedhttp://www.nmpteam.eu/am-motion-draft-additive-manufacturing-roadmap-published/
http://www.nmpteam.eu/am-motion-draft-additive-manufacturing-roadmap-published/#respondFri, 31 Aug 2018 13:31:14 +0000http://www.nmpteam.eu/?p=2182AM-Motion is a Horizon 2020 CSA project aiming at contributing to a rapid market uptake of Additive Manufacturing technologies across Europe by connecting and upscaling existing initiatives and efforts, improving the conditions for large-scale, cross-regional demonstration and market deployment, and by involving a large number of key stakeholders, particularly from industry.

AM-MOTION vision for 2030 foresees that Europe will improve its leading role in Additive Manufacturing, greatly impacting on the competitiveness of European industrial sectors. Based on the identified challenges and opportunities, the current draft AM-MOTION roadmap proposes future actions for the AM development and successful market uptake in target sectors:

Health;

Aerospace;

Automotive;

Consumer goods and Electronics;

Industrial equipment and Tooling;

Construction;

Energy

The document includes also cross-cutting actions (technical and non-technical), covering several sectors. You can download the document from the project web site: D5.3_rev_July2018-rev9.pdf .

AM-MOTION conducts public survey with the aim of collecting the feedback for its final validation, by the 10th of September 2018. Visit the follwing link to provide your contribution: http://survey.am-motion.eu/index.php/774715?lang=en .
AM-MOTION roadmap may be seen as an evolution of FOFAM Roadmap, which has been further developed and expanded in AM-MOTION project involving around 130 external experts through physical meetings and remote surveys. In August-September 2018 the whole community is asked to participate online to a public consultation. The revision of the roadmap will lead to the release of the Final AM-MOTION Roadmap, to be presented at “AMEF2018 Additive Manufacturing European Forum” (Brussels, 23-24 October 2018).

]]>http://www.nmpteam.eu/am-motion-draft-additive-manufacturing-roadmap-published/feed/0Looking for partners for NMBP proposals?http://www.nmpteam.eu/looking-for-partners-for-nmbp-proposals/
http://www.nmpteam.eu/looking-for-partners-for-nmbp-proposals/#respondFri, 31 Aug 2018 10:54:14 +0000http://www.nmpteam.eu/?p=2180The NMP TeAm partner search facility has been updated with the upcoming call topics for 2019 and 2020 based on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme, part 5.ii Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing (issue July 2018). Additionally to the NMBP topics also the battery topics of Work Programme part 20. Cross-cutting activities are included.
]]>http://www.nmpteam.eu/looking-for-partners-for-nmbp-proposals/feed/0EUROPE IN MOTION – EUMAT JOINT SESSIONhttp://www.nmpteam.eu/europe-in-motion-eumat-joint-session/
http://www.nmpteam.eu/europe-in-motion-eumat-joint-session/#respondFri, 24 Aug 2018 15:17:48 +0000http://www.nmpteam.eu/?p=2166EUMAT jointly with EMRS and with the support of the European Commission and NCP Poland, is organizing:

EUROPE IN MOTION – EUMAT JOINT SESSION

The workshop will take part in Warsaw in the main building of Warsaw University of Technology, Plac Politechniki 1, room 308, on 19th September 2018, 13:30-16:30, and is associated to EMRS Fall Meeting.

This half-day workshop has three major objectives:

To show that Europe is present in key topics at scientific and technological levels through a number of initiatives

To show that advanced materials are present in a number of projects in diverse areas

To show an overview of running activities in EUMAT and Pitches for Project ideas for EU Project calls.

You can also participate actively in the event providing a pitch presentation of project idea for next calls of Horizon 2020, or other EU programmes.

The workshop itself is free of cost. But you can benefit also from other EMRS Fall Meeting sessions, purchasing on-site the one-day Conference registration, or you can buy the lunch ticket.

Important notice on registration.
If you would like to participate in the event and/or include your pitch in the agenda, please send a message before 12th of September 2018 entitled “EUMAT Workshop/Presentation” to Amaya Igartua (amaya.igartua@tekniker.es), EUMAT co-secretary.